Table 8. Number of full-time teachers, base salary at the 5th, median, and 95th percentile cutpoints, and federal range ratio, by educational attainment, years of experience, and participating state: School year 2005

An Exploratory Evaluation of the Data from the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey: School Year 2005-06

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Table 8. Number of full-time teachers, base salary at the 5th, median, and 95th percentile cutpoints, and federal range ratio, by educational attainment, years of experience, and participating state: School year 2005–06
Educational attainment, years of experience, and participating state	Number of teachers	Base salary¹			Federal range ratio²
	Number of teachers	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile	Federal range ratio²
Teachers with bachelor's degree as highest degree and 1 year of experience
Arizona	4,244	$28,007	$33,450	$37,750	0.3
Arkansas	594	28,000	31,134	37,450	0.3
Colorado	2,394	26,400	31,398	40,493	0.5
Florida	8,440	29,970	33,940	40,872	0.4
Iowa	1,139	24,617	27,495	33,426	0.4
Missouri	3,432	23,400	29,283	35,417	0.5
Oklahoma	1,878	26,366	28,000	30,392	0.2

Teachers with bachelor's degree as highest degree and 10 years of experience
Arizona	884	32,010	40,338	51,760	0.6
Arkansas	405	32,500	37,500	45,969	0.4
Colorado	711	30,193	40,999	51,542	0.7
Florida	2,107	34,319	38,089	46,727	0.4
Iowa	715	30,328	36,759	43,618	0.4
Missouri	948	27,850	35,050	46,715	0.7
Oklahoma	997	29,760	31,861	34,832	0.2

Teachers with master's degree as highest degree and 10 years of experience
Arizona	1,087	35,500	44,215	54,816	0.5
Arkansas	287	36,800	40,676	49,284	0.3
Colorado	782	36,360	48,921	58,514	0.6
Florida	1,259	36,627	40,350	53,663	0.5
Iowa	185	34,276	41,665	47,903	0.4
Missouri	1,329	31,075	42,440	54,110	0.7
Oklahoma	280	30,950	33,268	37,308	0.2

Teachers with bachelor's degree as highest degree and 20 years of experience
Arizona	288	37,799	49,818	64,045	0.7
Arkansas	274	36,650	42,761	53,189	0.5
Colorado	289	33,878	49,098	60,974	0.8
Florida	1,239	40,450	48,644	60,463	0.5
Iowa	417	35,718	43,826	51,484	0.4
Missouri	419	30,366	37,875	52,395	0.7
Oklahoma	417	33,713	36,879	41,574	0.2

Teachers with master's degree as highest degree and 20 years of experience
Arizona	505	42,793	54,950	66,749	0.6
Arkansas	280	40,398	46,089	59,333	0.5
Colorado	494	41,410	58,258	68,899	0.7
Florida	876	43,514	52,433	65,226	0.5
Iowa	211	39,432	51,174	57,327	0.5
Missouri	864	34,450	51,228	72,598	1.1
Oklahoma	272	35,170	38,770	44,300	0.3
¹ Base salary is defined as the negotiated annual salary for teaching duties, excluding bonuses and extra pay for extra duties.
² The federal range ratio indicates the difference between the base salary of the state at the 95th percentile and the state at the 5th percentile divided by the base salary for the state at the 5th percentile.
NOTE: How to read this table: Using teachers with bachelor's degree as highest degree and 1 year of experience, Arizona as an example, this table shows that 5 percent of teachers with a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience have a base salary of $28,007 or less. If all teachers with a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience were listed by size of base salary, the teacher at the midpoint (median) would have a salary of $33,450. Five percent of teachers with a bachelor's degree and 1 year of experience have a base salary of $37,750 or more. The federal range ratio shows that the magnitude of the difference between base salaries at the 5th percentile and the 95th percentile is 0.4, or approximately 40 percent. Only the listed seven states participated in the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey. Data for Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma are for full-time teachers, teaching at one school with full-time equivalency (FTE) greater than or equal to 0.9 only, and whose base salary did not include pay for other duties. Data for Arizona and Arkansas are for teachers teaching at one school with FTE greater than or equal to 0.9 only. Arizona and Arkansas did not report whether a teacher was a full-time teacher or whether the reported base salary excluded pay for other duties. Data are not adjusted for geographic cost differences. Teachers with a doctor's degree are excluded because they make up less than 1 percent of all teachers.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey," school year 2005–06, Version 1a.

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